Stovec Industries Ltd. has informed BSE that Stovec Industries Ltd. and A.T.E. Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., the sole selling agent of the company, have mutually decided through a formal agreement on December 5 last to terminate the agency agreement for textile capital print and preprint equipments. Stovec now sells these products directly, with effect from January 1.
Stork Prints is a global leader in the textile and graphics printing market, providing total system solutions from screens, lacquers, inks and digital engraving to a broad range of rotary screen and digital printing systems. It made several new introductions in both digital equipment and consumables at ITMA 2011.
The new digital textile printer Sphene is designed to print on Polyamide Lycra swimwear fabric using acid inks. It can realise print speeds of up to an amazing 555 m≤/hr, while its feeding system allows virtually any fabric imaginable to be used, at widths of up to 1.85 metres.
The Pegasus EVO manages to combine excellent print quality with exceptional efficiency and flexibility in operation. Its sophisticated and flexible squeegee system gives brilliant colours in the widest range of applications for halftones, fine lines and blotches.
It also offers the most precise registration in the market. Through a combination of a unique paste recovery technology, the use of a blade squeegee, a superior drying process and an intelligent waste water recycling system, the EVO can save in excess of Euro 80,000, every year, in running costs.
Yet it still manages to offer the flexibility today’s textile printers are looking for. For example, it accepts blade-, air-flow and magnet squeegees, and can be equipped with integrated coating & finishing technology to enable production of many different types of coated fabric.
Moreover, the machine can also offer superb value for customers by retrofitting the new EVO upper part onto the existing RD 4, RDD and RD 8 frames. Customers can enjoy the advantages of individual drive, using the existing infrastructure and foundation of their machine.
Two new rotary screens
Users of Stork Prints rotary screen printing technology can also look to the future with confidence. For example, two new screens were introduced at ITMA. The 125/RR is characterised by a random distribution of conical holes. This significantly reduces the moirÈ effect whilst printing, which means less need for trials and fewer remakes and rejects. It also offers more freedom in design possibilities, for example through its ability to produce realistic weaving and tweed effects.
Meanwhile, the new 195/19% NovaScreen distinguishes itself by combining high paste transfer rates with superb resolution. A patented design combines a high mesh count with minimum spacing between wider and ingeniously conical holes, so the maximum amount of paste is transferred to the substrate. It has been specially designed for printing fine halftones on voluminous substrates like single jersey, and also gives full penetration print on CV georgette or crepe articles.
With the pre-press solutions on display, Stork Prints underlined that it is the only global partner that can offer solutions for every phase of the production process as well as consumables. For example, at its stand there was a bestLEN 8413 direct laser engraver doing what it does best ñ rapidly and accurately engraving screens. This was accompanied by a brand new highly advanced bestLEX laser exposure system, which integrates the advantages of optical screen exposure with those of digital laser technology.
